[Food] Black Jacks or Fruit Salads

[albionfan37]

Both really good but I’d have to favour a blackjack

 

[Boroseagull]

A farthing each and I always preferred Fruit Salads. Bought at Walkers at Wilmington Parade on the way to school.

 

[banjo]

1/2 a penny in my day. Blackjacks.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not forgetting the sherbet lemons

I bet those who like sherbet lemons are the same weirdos in that other thread who like Fry’s Turkish Delight.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

I bet those who like sherbet lemons are the same weirdos in that other thread who like Fry’s Turkish Delight.

Perhaps the

I bet those who like sherbet lemons are the same weirdos in that other thread who like Fry’s Turkish Delight.

Not forgetting the anarchists who opted for chocolate raisins

 

[Comrade Sam]

Fruit salad obviously. Used to buy 5 when an old sixpence was worth 2 1/2p. I'm sure both can now be bought as a hand soap pump and fizzy drink in Aldi. I assume it's like drinking cold fizzy vomit.
Texan v Nutty bar!

 

[drew]

I'd take either. Talking of retro sweets, spangles were always popular and the vast choice of flavours.

 

[shingle]

Fascinating thread. Fruit Salads all the way.

 

[shingle]

On the subject of old fashioned/boiled sweets....Mrs Shingle still has sherbert lemons on a weekly basis

 

[HillBarnTillIDie]

Apple Jacks…..

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Texan v Nutty bar!

Chocolate tools vs white chocolate mice!

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Seem to recall that blackjacks were 2 for 1/2p in the shop up the steps in Tarring.
But most other shops had them at 1/2p each.

Probably fruit salads over black jacks but depended on my mood.
Agree with @Simster 3-1 ratio about right

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Seem to recall that blackjacks were 2 for 1/2p in the shop up the steps in Tarring.
But most other shops had them at 1/2p each.

Probably fruit salads over black jacks but depended on my mood.
Agree with @Simster 3-1 ratio about right

Was the shop called No10 or was it the one next to the hair dressers?

 

[BBassic]

Fruit Salad were the best.

Until the shop started selling those little green gummy turtle things. Then I was all over the little green gummy turtle things.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Was the shop called No10 or was it the one next to the hair dressers?

The one next to the hairdressers

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

I favoured a fruit salad, but liked the blackjacks too. Would alternate between them on my way to school.
Then I got into NFL bubblegum, and collecting helmets / key rings.

 

[Official Old Man]

Here's a little interesting fact.
For the past 40 years I've been selling Black Jack sticks of rock. This past summer the trade name owner, I guess it's Barrets, sent out warning letters to all the factories making the product telling them to change the name.

 

[Bald Head]

When i was a young lad in the 50s you could buy 960 of these for a pound ,when Decimalisation came in 1971 you could then only buy 400 for a pound. I think i wept. The spending power of my pocket money was reduced overnight.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Was the shop called No10 or was it the one next to the hair dressers?

Which one was number10?
Was that the one round the corner that used to sell single cigarettes to children?

 

[HeaviestTed]

Fruit salads obviously.

I miss the sweet stalls at the Amex, PBOBE please bring them back!